The thought didn't seat well with me, why was I even scared of a psychopath? My breath stuttered as a flash of an inhumanly beautiful face flashed in my mind.
No way!, I gasped. No one was supposed to remember what he looked like, even if he did honour us and attend the summoning no one was allowed to see him.
"Danica." I was pushed from my thought when my name was called. I looked at Mala, the woman who I've come to know was a distant relative of professor Cauline.
"I've called your name thrice before you answered, what were you thinking about? please let your mind be here."
I couldn't tell her I was thinking about the psychopath prince face, not that she'd believe I remember though.
"Don't worry, I'm all in no need to be scared, I also don't want to die."
"Great." She breathed out a relived sigh. "Our practice time is almost over, let's sing one more time."
Turns out they only sang rubbish for the solo but sang great for the chorus and I still couldn't let go of my doubt that they all did it on purpose.
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I looked around me to the other group and noticed some where smiling, some had hopeful looks while some looked outright sad.
"Why are they sad?" I asked Mala.
"I heard that they choose the song of melancholy by Vivian Eurenos."
I thought it was a great song for the trial, it shouldn't have been hard for them to get that feeling of melancholy into their voice, then I remembered why they would hate the song. The solo tone consisted of high and low sounds that people sometimes forget to go high or low because the song just flowed better with a tone. I saw the reason now, I would also have been scared.
"Welcome to the final trial of level two, I hope you wonderful people are ready for this night?" The crowd screamed in glee.
It was night already? But it still looked bright. Despite the fact that the trials were close I couldn't help but wonder how many days I've been in this trial.
"Are you ready contestants?!" Nobody answered. "Um..okay then we're starting with group Call for Dracone!"
The crowd screamed harder than they ever did.
"That's right people, we're counting on this group to sing well and call forth our beloved rulers!"
Ooh, no pressure, no pressure at all, especially when they girls all turned to me with pleading eyes.
You've been eeriely quiet. I told the voice. I thought for sure you would have used this to taunt me or something.
I got no reply, it didn't freak me, it was part of what the voice did, sometimes it answers sometimes it doesn't.
Okay Danica let your mind be in synch, remember you don't want to die singing it's not an honourable death.
I know, I give horrible pep talks.
We all inhaled and exhaled and then the beats started.